After
reciting the Tashahhud, the Ta’uz and the first
chapter Al Fatiha of the Holy QuranImam Zafrullah
Domun said:

Today
is the last Friday of the year 2012.Another year is gone in our life.
A new year will begin soon. The changing of the years mark the
passage of time and nothing more. Traditionally most people who can
afford it try to be merry and happy on such occasions. They eat and
drink and have a good time. There is nothing bad in eating and
drinking within the proper limits. As good Muslims we should see to
it that we do nothing to harm others or displease our Lord. If we
learn to act within these limits, we will incha Allah lead a
happy life and we will meet Allah while we are in a state of
submission to Him.

So
the
ending of a period of our life is the occasion for us to take stock
of our deeds and to move forward with a determination to do even
better in the future. When we look about the past year, we may ask
ourselves how far we have been busy carrying out the commandments of
Allah as was expected of us and how far we have fulfilled our
obligations to our close ones as we should have done. One should not
expect a revelation from Allah to know whether one has been doing
one’s duties or not. What Allah demands from us are very clearly
stated in the Holy Quran, so it is quite easy for us to know them and
to practice His Commandments. Among His main commandments are that we
should be regular in our prayers every day, and that we spend in His
cause and that we fast during the month of Ramadan and that we should
perform Hajj if we have the means to do so. Among the main things
that He has forbidden us is that we should not associate anyone with
Him and that we should stay away from all sorts of indecency whether
in private or in public. Allah expects us to be kind with one another
to maintain our family ties and that we do good to one another
according to our means. Allah expects Muslims to live in peace with
one another and not to fight with one another. If there are
differences, Allah has shown us how to solve these differences. Allah
says in the Holy Quran:

O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey His Messenger
and those who are in authority among you. And if you differ in
anything among yourselves, refer it to Allah and His Messenger
if you are believers in Allah and the Last Day. That is best and most
commendable in the end.
(4:60)

This
verse makes it clear to one and all that amongst Muslims differences
are solved through polite exchange of opinions, rather of arguments,
should I say. Among Muslims differences of opinions are not solved by
the use of swords because Allah has made it quite clear that “Innal
Mouslemeen ikhwatoun”, that is to say “All Muslims are
brothers” and it is our duty to “establish peace amongst them.”
Similarly there are many other commandments of Allah that we should
make ourselves aware of by studying the Holy Quran and by practicing
them. So by the end of this period in time we should see to it how
far we have progressed in our attempt to obey Allah and how far we
have to go and devise every means at our disposal to reach near our
destination as quickly as possible. Personally I think that the
ending of a year and the beginning of another one brings us this
message and we need to reflect upon it. May Allah help us to do so.

Members
will recall that twelve years ago, exactly in the beginning of the
year 2001 the fourth caliph, Mirza Tahir Ahmad expelled us from the
mainstream Jamaat following a report that his amir had sent him.
Without even listening to what we had to say, he severed all
relationship with us. At that time, an infamous Mauritian mullah who
was in London circulated a letter to his relatives in Mauritius in
which he spoke ill of me and my family and spoke as if he were a
mini-caliph and assured the then amir that he was there to support
him against me. The then caliph vindicated his stand. At that time
Allah comforted us and told us not to be afraid of these people
including the caliph. So we resisted the pressures of all those who
wanted us to just present our excuses and reintegrate the Jamaat. We
understood there and then that Khilafat Ahmadiyya was not on the
right track. Many tried to influence the members of the Jamaat
against us. In their speeches they spoke lots of nonsense. At that
time several times Allah had revealed to me that He “will humiliate
those who tried to humiliate us” and that I needed not fear because
I would be given the upper hand.

Those
who know and reflect know what were the consequences of all these ill
advised campaigns against us. The amir, who declared himself to be
like a lion in defence of khilafat Ahmadiyya, was booted out of
office by the caliph himself because of financial irregularities. The
speech makers had to shut their mouths because events took place
which publicly humiliated them. As far as the Mauritian mullah from
London is concerned, Allah made him taste the ill consequences of
what he was concocting for others. For the past twelve years a
majority of the members of mainstream Jamaat Ahmadiyya Mauritius have
been flouting the commandments of Allah by obeying the anti-Islamic
instructions of their caliph. They felt that the caliph is above
Allah and he should be obeyed even if his instructions are contrary
to what Allah has said. The Jamaat exploits this stupid belief of
ignorant Ahmadis. There is nothing further from the truth. Anyhow if
one has eyes to see one will easily conclude that all those who tried
to stand in our way have been eliminated one by one by Allah.

These
days the present amir together with his missionary in charge are
adamantly and zealously trying to make Ahmadis observe a social
boycott against the members of Jamaat Ahmadiyya Al Mouslemeen. The
Jamaat’s leadership is relentless in its campaign of making the
members break their family ties. Unfortunately hate has blinded them
so much that they do not see the evil consequences of their campaign.
If that were not the case how can they justify that the amir has had
to confess in a previous Friday sermon that domestic strife is
increasing at an alarming proportion within the Jamaat. Should anyone
be surprised by this. The Jamaat became the institution that promoted
the breakup of families through the application of social boycott.
Now it is reaping the consequences of its unislamic policies. If you
think that I am exaggerating then you should know that according to
your own caliph divorce rate among Ahmadis in England is around 35%
and in Canada it is about 20%.What it is for Mauritius, I do not
know. But those who have murdered domestic tranquility by imposing
upon members to break their relationship are today wondering why
there is so much domestic strife within the Jamaat. They should look
around and see what has happened to the avid proponents of these
policies and they should understand that it is not good to oppose
Allah and to try to harm His people.

Any
member of the Jamaat who obeys the amir and disobeys Allah is
committing a sin for which he has to repent for or else he will have
to account for it when he or she will meet Allah. Recently the caliph
spoke at the European parliament. He made a speech about how to deal
with extremism. In fact within mainstream Jamaat Ahmadiyya there are
no other extremist than the leadership itself. They try to make the
Europeans think that they are victims in Pakistan but what they hide
from them is that they are themselves oppressors of their own kind.
What would such a group do if tomorrow it happens to rule even one
country in the world? They would be worst than the leaders that we
see ruling the Muslim world today. The present day Muslim Leaders may
be excused for their excesses because they have not accepted Hazrat
Masih Maood as and they do not know his teachings. But
Jamaat Ahmadiyya knows quite well what are the teachings of the
Promised Messiah and yet they choose to ignore or distort it.

You
will recall that recently I told you that the 1974 parliamentary
subcommittee report has been posted on the net by an Ahmadi brother.
You will also recall that it used to be said that once this report
were published, almost half of Pakistan would become Ahmadis. We have
yet to see that. But what we can see is that the third caliph was at
a loss to explain to his audience how come there could be only one
prophet after the Holy Prophet Mohammad saw. We all know
that Hazrat Masih Maood as has said that prophets would
continue to come till the end of the world. We all know that the
second caliph said that many prophets would come. Yet against this
background the third caliph insisted that the Holy prophet
prophesized for only one prophet. Recently someone sent an email to
the Vakil Tabshir London asking for clarifications about the
declaration of the the third caliph. Would you believe that he
received a five page reply justifying the stand of the third caliph
and ignoring clear cut instructions of Hazrat Masih Maood as.
So we ask who are those who are maintaining the teachings of the
Promised Messiah, they or those who stand by what the Messiah said.
It is unfortunate that the UlamÔ of Jamaat Ahmadiyya can bow in
to authority even if truth is murdered. True UlamÔ are those
who fear Allah and are unafraid of anyone besides Him. Hazrat Masih
Maood as came to teach the Muslim world that Isa as
is dead and he would not come again in this world. Jamaat Ahmadiyya
mainstream, in order to justify its khilafat is killing the teachings
of Hazrat Masih Maood as in order to justify its own
existence. How unfortunate that within 120 years so much distortion
is being promoted within the Jamaat. How sad that in order to
perpetuate this khilafat, the leadership of the Jamaat are ready to
murder Truth!

Let
us
hope and pray that within the new generation of Ahmadis we might get
a new breed of scholars who would be dedicated to the pursuit of
truth and who would do their best to understand and propagate the
true teachings of Hazrat Masih Maoodas to the world. They
would be such people who would question the received wisdom and would
try to make sense of it in order to deepen their understanding. If
through the process they have to walk on eggs, so let it be. It is
the teachings of Hazrat Masih Maood as that will enlighten
the world and not the one propagated by the caliphs of the Jamaat and
its prostrate scholars.

Once,
Allah helped me to understand that Khilafat Ahmadiyya as it is being
practiced was not prescribed for the Jamaat by Allah. I was given to
understand that it is like monasticism as practiced by the
Christians. Allah did not prescribe it for them. He says in the Holy
Quran:

“………But monasticism which
they invented for themselves — We did not prescribe it for them —
for the seeking of Allah’s pleasure; but they did not observe it
with due observance.”(59:28)

In
the
past there have been many books depicting what goes on within
monasteries. But recently the enormities of the crimes that have been
going on within the church because of unmarried priests have come to
light and have shocked many even among Catholics. The recent scandals
within the church have shaken the Vatican to its roots .Even the pope
has had to make amends and present excuses for the sins committed
within the church. Mind you, this does not concern only a particular
region of the world. It runs from Australia to Europe to USA, Canada
and even to South America. But we will not say that the enormities of
the Ahmadiyya Khilafat are of the same nature. No it is different. If
there the abuse was physical, here the abuse is moral and spiritual.
A caliph whom people thought was a superman has put the Jamaat on a
certain footing and now everyone who comes afterward says that what
he did was excellent and there are no improvements to be brought
about. There is a need for a rethink of how the Jamaat should be run
and whether the caliph should wield as much power as he does. The
abuses stem from the fact that he appears as a demigod amongst the
people and all the members feel that they have to bow to him. A
time will incha Allah come when a caliph will have enough fear
of Allah to make apologies for what his predecessors have done and
said. He would be bold enough to acknowledge their mistakes in
matters of doctrine and even in practices. Let us pray that this time
may come sooner rather than later and that mainstream Jamaat
Ahmadiyya comes on the straight path as it should have always been.
The mainstream Jamaat will not ignore for long the many dissentient
voices that are rising around the world to make it realize its gross
misconduct. May Allah open our heart to truth and helps us to
practice it wherever we might be. Ameen.